Ritual as a cardinal category of moral reality

An introduction

David Solomon, Ruiping Fan, Tristram Engelhardt

1-14

Ritual as the creation of social reality

Ana S. Iltis

17-28

Ritual, virtue, and human flourishing

rites as bearers of meaning

Tristram Engelhardt

29-51

Ritual as education concerning social space and time

Mark Cherry

53-73

Why the West spurns medical rituals

Griffin Trotter

75-86

Ritual

meaning and recognition

Tangjia Wang

89-104

An analysis of the consciousness of filial piety through the perspective of time

Xianglong Zhang

105-118

Confucian rites of passage

a comparative analysis of zhu xi's family rituals

Ping-Cheung Lo

119-141

Confucian ritualization

how and why?

Ruiping Fan

143-158

Cultural and philosophical resistance to ritual in contemporary culture

David Solomon

161-171

Hierarchical rituals for egalitarian societies

Daniel A. Bell

173-193

Ritual, harmony, and peace and order

a confucian conception of ritual

Jonathan Chan

195-205

The traditional ritual project

George Khushf

209-236

Renewing ritual cultures

paternal authority, filial piety, and the ethos of self-submission in Christianity and confucianism

Corinna Delkeskamp-Hayes

237-291